UC Santa Cruz

What is TWIGS?

• A voluntary seminar given by SOE graduate students on interesting topics
• Inspired by TWIGS at UMass
• Held every week or so
• Topics in computer science, math, and related disciplines
• Please inform Jaeheon of talk details by previous week's Thursday. (email: jaeheon at soe.ucsc.edu)
• Some topic suggestions

• Oct 8
  • What is tensor visualization? ( Alisa Neeman)
• Oct 15
  • What is a monad? ( Kenn Knowles)( More about monads!)
• Oct 22
  • What is a memory model? ( Jaeheon Yi)
• Oct 29
  • No talk scheduled.
• Nov 5
  • No talk scheduled.
• Nov 12
  • What is a RPC; what are your options; why you should care; DDoS on the cluster anyone? ( Ian Pye)
• Nov 19
  • No talk scheduled.
• Nov 26
  • No talk scheduled.
• Dec 3
  • No talk scheduled.

• Apr 17
  • What is an SMT Solver? ( Jaeheon Yi)
• Apr 24
  • What is a File System in Userspace? ( Ian Pye)
• May 1
  • What is Defunctionalization? ( Kenn Knowles)
• May 8
  • nop
• May 15
  • What is Human Cognition? ( Sherol Chen)
• May 22
  • What is Scipy? ( Damian Eads)
• May 29
  • What is a Quasi-Inverse? (Jordan Johnson)
• Jun 3
  • What is Live Coding? ( Adam Marshall Smith)